The presence of religion in the Latin American public space. Notes for a debate

ESQUIVEL, JUAN CRUZ; TONIOL, RODRIGO

SOCIAL COMPASS

Université Catholique de Louvain

Lugar: Lovaina; Año: 2018 vol. 65 p. 467 - 485

0037-7686

Religion in the public space constitutes a structuring issue of the contemporarydebates of the social sciences of religion. This article mobilizes part of that literature, circumscribing it to the Latin American context. In that attempt, we work in two dimensions. First, we present how, from the historical and political configurations of our region in the debate, problems and questions about the public space are addressed distant from those commonly encountered when the empirical reference corresponds to the United States-Europe map. The aim is to explore the regional particularities for an effort to theoretically and methodologically strengthen the analysis of this topic. The second dimension contemplated in the text is the presentation of concrete empirical situations in which religion in public space is condensed as a controversy, that mobilize and is mobilized by different actors: politicians, religious, academics, media. These two dimensions go through the thematic issue that follows this article. Indizado en: SCOPUS, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, International Political Science Abstracts, Religion Index One, Religious and Theological Abstracts, Social Sciences Citation Index, Academic Search Premier, IBZ Online, International Bibliography of Social Sciences, Science Culture, SocInfo, Social SciSearch, Social Services Abstracts, Southeast Asia Abstracts & Index, Sociological Abstracts, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts.